Summary:
As application designers, we should strive to make sure our applications are as usable as possible, irrespective of where in the world the user resides. Win32 developers have long had access to functions that allow them to properly represent dates, currency values, and so on. Its important that whenever we have to show the user dates, times, monetary values, or numbers, we use the globalization features in .NET. These features use the globalization settings in Windows to properly format these values into strings for display. In this article, Matthew Reynolds looks at the basics of properly formatting dates, times and numbers for display. In the second part of the discussion, he looks at how we can build a Windows Form that can alter the text on the controls depending on the users settings. |
